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Paper Moon (Movie filmed in St. Joseph, Mo), 1973Entry/Object ID
L2018.33.1Description
Paper Moon (Movie filmed in St. Joseph, Mo), 1973. Some scenes filmed at St. Charles Hotel, others in streets, alleys in downtown St. Joseph.
Tatum O'Neal won an Oscar for her role in this film. (She is the youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award, which she won in 1974 at age 10 for her performance as Addie Loggins in Paper Moon opposite her father, Ryan O'Neal.)
Paper Moon is a 1973 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released by Paramount Pictures. Screenwriter Alvin Sargent adapted the script from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown. The film, shot in black-and-white, is set in Kansas and Missouri during the Great Depression. It stars the real-life father and daughter pairing of Ryan and Tatum O'Neal as protagonists Moze and Addie.
Plot
Con man Moses Pray meets 9-year-old Addie Loggins at Addie's mother's graveside service, where the neighbors suspect he is Addie's father. He denies this, but agrees to deliver the orphaned Addie to her aunt's home in St. Joseph, Missouri.
The film was shot in the small towns of Hays, Kansas; McCracken, Kansas; Wilson, Kansas; and St. Joseph, Missouri. Various shooting locations include the Midland Hotel at Wilson, Kansas; the railway depot at Gorham, Kansas; storefronts and buildings on Main Street in White Cloud, Kansas; Hays, Kansas; sites on both sides of the Missouri River; Rulo Bridge; and Saint Joseph, Missouri. (wikipedia)
VHS Tape, in plastic case.Lexicon
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Movies Filmed in St. Joseph, St. Joseph Movies, St. Charles HotelPublication Details
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Bogdanovich, PeterDate Published
1973Call No.
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Ryan O'NealPerson or Organization
Tatum O'Neal